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plenary sessions   |   detailed program:   26th July  -   27th July  -   28th July Plenary Sessions   -   William J. Cook, Georgia Institute of Technology Solving Traveling Salesman Problems   -   Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles The Ant Colony Optimization Metaheuristic   -   Chris A. Floudas, Princeton University Deterministic Global Optimization: Advances and Challenges   -   Philip E. Gill , University of California Recent Advances in Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization   -   Thomas L. Magnanti, Massachussets Institute of Technology All Roads Lead to Lisbon: Some Modeling Approaches for Designing Optimal Networks   -   Franz Rendl, Universität Klagenfurt Does Semidefinite Programming help to Approximate Combinatorial Optimization Problems? conference program :: plenary sessions